Noosphere law and noosphere ethics in contemporary philosophical discourse

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authors: Valentyna Voronkova, Olga Kyvliuk, Vìtalina Nikitenko

 Abstract.

Relevance of the research. The relevance of this study lies in the necessity to rethink the role of law and ethics in ensuring sustainable development under conditions of ecological crisis, technogenic pressure, and spiritual degradation. It emphasizes the integration of scientific, ethical, and legal knowledge within the philosophy of the noosphere—the highest form of human interaction with the biosphere. This approach involves the formation of a new legal and ethical consciousness based on harmony, responsibility, complicity, and coexistence, as well as the development of new legal paradigms that consider not only human rights but also the rights of nature, the planet, and future generations.

Problem statement. In the 21st century, humanity faces unprecedented global challenges: ecological disasters, moral crises, technological transformations, and the growing gap between scientific progress and spiritual values. Traditional approaches to ethics and law are increasingly inadequate for addressing problems that affect not only humanity but also the biosphere as a whole. Existing legal systems, which are largely anthropocentric, remain unprepared for the demands of global environmental responsibility, cybernetics, bioethics, and digital justice. The key issue is that the modern legal and ethical paradigm does not fully account for the integrity of existence, the interdependence of all forms of life, and the necessity of long-term evolutionary harmony between humans, nature, and the technosphere. At the same time, contemporary scholarship insufficiently explores noospheric law and ethics as independent phenomena of legal culture and global ethical consciousness. There are no systematic approaches to their conceptual definition, interconnection, institutionalization in human rights practices, or practical implementation. Consequently, there is a pressing need to develop a new philosophical and legal model that combines the ethics of responsibility, environmental awareness, and the values of sustainable development within a noospheric worldview.

Analysis of recent research and publications. In this context, it is relevant to turn to the concepts of noospheric law and noospheric ethics. Based on V. Vernadsky’s ideas about the noosphere as the sphere of reason and conscious human activity, these concepts allow for a rethinking of the moral and legal foundations of human interaction with the world. In contemporary Ukrainian philosophical and legal thought, these issues are elaborated by V. Andrushchenko, R. Andryukaytene, O. Voznyuk, V. Voronkova, N. Verlos, H. Hubenko, O. Kyviuk, V. Nikitenko, B. Chuprynsʹkyy, who emphasize the significance of the spiritual and moral factor in the value system of modern civilization and highlight the necessity of renewing legal culture through the integration of noospheric values into human rights practices. A fundamental theoretical and methodological basis is provided by Vernadsky’s understanding of the noosphere as a sphere of morality, reason, and justice, where knowledge, information, and intellect play a decisive role in planetary development.

Research task. This study aims to conceptualize noospheric ethics and law as a new humanistic and ecological paradigm for human rights protection and for the formation of a legal culture responsive to the challenges of globalization, digitalization, and ecological crisis. The objectives are as follows: to analyze noospheric ethics and law as a humanistic paradigm of human rights activity; to identify an integral model of law as a factor of sustainable development, cultural evolution, and the preservation of civilizational balance in a globalized world; to investigate noospheric advocacy as an expression of humanism, ecological responsibility, and social justice.

Main material presentation. The role of noospheric ethics as a source of humanistic value orientation in law is examined, with emphasis on the interrelation of human rights, environmental responsibility, and global solidarity. The article explores the concept of noospheric law and ethics as an innovative paradigm capable of transforming contemporary human rights activity and legal culture. This paradigm is grounded in Vernadsky’s vision of the noosphere as a sphere of reason, where knowledge, moral values, and spiritual responsibility foster a new civilizational consciousness.

Conclusions. The study theoretically substantiates the need to move beyond a technocratic and formal-legal approach toward an ethical-value-based and integral vision of law as a tool for harmonizing relations among humans, society, nature, and the technological environment.

Keywords: noospheric ethics, noospheric law, legal ethics, human rights protection, human rights advocacy, protection of human rights and freedoms.

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CONTENT

Svitlana Krylova, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5528-7438)

INTELLIGENT ALTRUISM: ITS NATURE AND ACTUALIZATION THROUGH EDUCATION

 Roman Bogachev, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor,  Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1926-608x)

Tamara Rudenko, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2430-2225)

Hanna Kostromina, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4822-4914)

Svitlana Babina, PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer Department of Philosophy, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7825-3628)

Haiduk Fedir, PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9923-8951)

THE NATURE OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY: A HISTORICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW

 Zoreslav Samchuk,  Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Chief Researcher of the I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7247-186X)

SYMBOLIC COMPETENCE AND DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION: CIVILIZATIONAL DIMENSION OF TEACHER LANGUAGE TRAINING

 Olga Kyvliuk, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Foreign Languages and Social Sciences and Humanities, Kyiv Institute of Intellectual Property and Law of the National University “Odessa Law Academy” (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7900-9299)

НUMAN 2.0: PHILOSOPHICAL OUTLINES OF TRANSHUMANIST AND POSTHUMANIST CONCEPTS

 Oleh Karlov, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Military Institute of Tank Forces, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1045-5858)

REMEMBERING EVERYTHING: LEARNING THE LESSONS OF HISTORY AS AN IMPERATIVE FOR AN EFFECTIVE SOCIETY

 Valentyn Blazhko,  PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9077-5687)

FROM GEOPOLITICS TO GEOANTHROPOLOGY: THE EARTH AS A SYMBOL OF SUFFERING IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE

 Ruslan Filonenko, PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1743-5946)

HUMAN VALUES IN THE SHADOW OF MACHINE WAR: ETHICAL AND EXISTENTIAL CHALLENGES

 Maksym Tymoshenko, PhD in Philosophy, Professor, Honored Art Worker of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Rector of the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0702-5484)

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN STRATEGIES AS A FACTOR IN THE FORMATION OF UKRAINE'S CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION TRANSFORMATIONS

 Olha Potishchuk, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9767-237X)

Natalia Franko, Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8850-315X)

Maryna Storozhyk, Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6412-5182)

RATIONALITY AS A LOGICAL FORM OF THINKING IN PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

 Olena Chykalo,  PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4644-3165)

Inna Simashko,  PhD in Philosophy, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/ 0000-0001-8353-7310)

PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DIGITALIZATION IN THE CONTEXT OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY

 Uliana Zhornokui, PhD in Philology, Head of Department of Foreign Languages, Philology and Journalism, Kyiv University of Inntellectual Property and Law of the National University “Odesa Law Academy” (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3413-785X)

Kovalenko Natalia, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages, Philology and Journalism, Kyiv University of Intellectual Property and Law (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9881-4835)

Lidiia Pokotylo, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages, Philology and Journalism, Kyiv University of Intellectual Property and Law (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2331-7954)

THE CATEGORY OF BLINDNESS IN THE RECEPTIVE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (BASED ON ELEONOR PORTER’S NOVEL “DAWN”)

 Mariana Drobotenko, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., http://orsid.org/0000-0002-8053-5595)

INTEGRITY IN THE PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE TEACHERS: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM

 Volodymyr Zuikov, PhD student of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Dragomanov Ukrainian State University, Senior Lecturer at the Tavria Christian Institute (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7858-8997)

Gennadii Tselkovsky, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Dragomanov Ukrainian State University (е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2652-9506)

CHAPLAIN'S MINISTRY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE THEOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF UKRAINIAN BAPTISM

 Ivan Kunderenko, PhD in Philosophy, Post-PhD doctoral studies in Rivne State University of Humanities, Associate Professor of the Department of Pedagogics, Educational Management and Social Work, Rivne State University of Humanities (е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6115-499X)

PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES OF USING SELECTED DESCRIPTORS OF MARY DOUGLAS’S TYPOLOGY (USED TO STUDY RELIGION) IN INTERACTING WITH THE PROTESTANTS OF UKRAINE

 

Practical advantages of using selected descriptors of mary douglas’s typology (used to study religion) in interacting with the protestants of Ukraine

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author: Ivan Kunderenko

Relevance of the research. Mary Douglas's theory of group/grid is a valuable tool in religious studies and sociology, as it helps analyse the impact of social structures on human behaviour. It explains the dynamics of community and the number of social roles, which affect interaction within the group and control over the individual. This theory allows us to predict group and individual behaviour and dynamics, and explains how belonging to a given cosmology affects decision-making. Its principles contribute to more effective interaction and communication with different communities.

Problem statement. Analysing religious communities through cultural paradigms is essential for understanding their interaction with the social environment. Mary Douglas's Group/Grid theory helps to explore the behavioural patterns, values, and rituals of groups, adapting these concepts to contemporary realities. Her interdisciplinary approach combines sociology, anthropology, and religious studies, especially for Protestant communities in Ukraine, where a historically marginalised approach needs to be changed. Douglas's theory contributes to assessing social norms, group dynamics, and decision-making, which is vital for creating a just society. Her ideas open up opportunities for practical recommendations and solutions to current problems, helping to predict and strengthen social interaction.

Analysis of recent research and publications. In our previous studies, we have argued for the need to move away from Niebuhr's static religious studies typology, although it remains popular in Ukraine, along with the typologies of M. Weber and E. Trotzsch. The Western tradition of religious studies is increasingly focused on dynamic models. Mary Douglas's cultural model is a dynamic model, but it is hardly studied in Ukraine, except for the English-language publication by N. Kryvda and S. Storozhuk. A number of foreign researchers adapt the Douglas model to different contexts: J. Meschalk uses it to reduce crime in the EU, R. Baskerville uses it for business development in a multicultural environment, J. Spickard analyzes the transformation of the model, and M. Thompson and his group criticize it for certain limitations. At the same time, they try to find correlations between the dynamic Douglas paradigm and static models. None of the researchers adapts these developments to the dialogue with the Protestant community in Ukraine, which makes our approach novel.

Research task. To explore the benefits of Mary Douglas' typology in interacting with Ukrainian Protestants, those advantages come as a gain of a deeper understanding of the social dynamics of the community and improving a dialogue with its members. Douglas's dynamic approach facilitates the analysis of the views and practices of religious groups, allowing for the consideration of their differences to create effective communication strategies. This will help build more constructive engagement and better adapt cultural and social ideas to the needs of the community.

Main material presentation. The author introduces the reader to M. Douglas's typology, which proposes to assess societies using a coordinate system, where the horizontal dimension determines the degree of control over the individual and the boundaries of the groupness, as well as how strongly the group guards its boundaries. The vertical dimension, on the other hand, measures the level of grid and social roles. The main key descriptors considered are: communication, blame, envy, economic growth/change, scarcity, risk, apathy, and conflict resolution. Each of these descriptors is accompanied by an application to Ukrainian Protestants and an explanation of the corresponding cosmology.

Conclusions. The application of Mary Douglas' paradigm to Protestant communities in Ukraine can transform the interaction between society and the religious community, provided that one avoids transferring one's own cosmology to others. Due to its interdisciplinarity, the paradigm effectively supports analysis through an emic approach, taking into account the influence of Durkheim's ideas. A particularly promising area is the study of “problematic” areas, such as missionary work, where communication difficulties are possible due to different cosmologies. This typology serves as a powerful tool for understanding the organization of Protestant communities in Ukraine and their impact on culture, values, and social development.

Keywords: dynamic typology; Protestants of Ukraine; cosmology; Cultural Anthropology of Religion.

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Chaplain's ministry in the context of the theological transformations of Ukrainian baptism

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authors: Volodymyr Zuikov, Hennadii Tselkovsky

Relevance of the research. The full-scale war in Ukraine, ongoing since 2022, has caused profound changes in the religious landscape, particularly in the theological consciousness of Ukrainian Baptism. Under these circumstances, chaplaincy has acquired new forms and meanings, combining spiritual, moral, and social support for the military. This phenomenon requires theological reflection and analysis in the context of the church’s mission transformation, its involvement in national recovery, and shifts in public consciousness.

Problem statement. Pacifist tradition has long dominated the theology of Ukrainian Baptism, but it is now being reconsidered in the face of war. Currently, there is a lack of systematic analysis of how chaplaincy affects the transformation of ecclesiological, moral, and pastoral approaches within Baptist theology. The problem lies in the insufficient study of the theoretical foundations and practical dimensions of chaplaincy in the context of war-induced changes.

Analysis of recent research and publications. Certain aspects of chaplaincy in Ukrainian Protestant churches have been addressed by contemporary scholars, yet these works are mostly descriptive or socio-political in nature. The theological dimension—particularly in the context of Baptism—remains underexplored. Existing publications do not fully capture the depth of the transformational processes triggered by the war.

Research task. The purpose of this article is to explore the essence of chaplaincy within the All-Ukrainian Union of Churches of Evangelical Christians-Baptists as a form of spiritual and psychosocial support for military personnel, and to examine the theological transformations of Ukrainian Baptism caused by the wartime experience. The main objective is to analyze new ecclesiological orientations, the rethinking of pacifism, the theology of suffering, and the church’s social responsibility.

Main material presentation. The article outlines the historical prerequisites for the development of chaplaincy in the Baptist context and analyzes its current practices, which integrate pastoral care, psychological support, and social responsibility. It demonstrates that the war has become a catalyst for rethinking church identity, the role of the faith community in society, and for changing understandings of the theology of suffering, sacrifice, and participation in the struggle for national dignity. The crisis of pacifist ideals, growing support for active Christian engagement, and emerging educational and institutional needs for the advancement of chaplaincy are described.

Conclusions. Chaplaincy has become a significant factor in the spiritual mobilization of Ukrainian Baptism during wartime, contributing to theological renewal and the expansion of the church’s ecclesiological vision. It forms a new paradigm of Christian presence in critical social processes and highlights the need for deep theological analysis of war experience and the practical training of ministers. The effective development of this ministry requires institutional support, an interdisciplinary educational approach, and active participation of religious communities in the nation’s recovery.

Keywords: chaplaincy, Ukrainian Baptism, theological transformations, military chaplaincy.

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